![]() ![]() It was feasible to ask adolescents in acute suicidal crisis to fill in a questionnaire. Clinical judgment and test results were collected and analyzed by an independent researcher. It has one suicidal item, which was used in this study for validation of the SIQ result. The Y-LSQ (30 items) measures the overall level of psychological distress. The SIQ has 30 items, 8 of which are defined as critical items able to predict suicidality with the highest probability. Methodģ1 adolescents, presenting for suicide assessment, and their caregivers, were asked upon emergency presentation to fill in the Suicidal-Ideation-Questionnaire (SIQ) and the Youth Life Status Questionnaire (Y-LSQ) before receiving an assessment by a clinician. The objective of this pilot-study was to evaluate feasibility and usefulness of questionnaires during assessment of youths in acute suicidal crisis. Assessing youths in acute suicidal crisis is a common jet pivotal task in child and adolescent psychiatry, usually relying primarily on the clinicians skills of assessment.
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